There’s a new esports league in the UK specifically for companies to take part in matches of CSGO and FIFA.
Publication and events business Esports Insider has teamed up with London esports bar Platform to operate the WFH League, whose tagline is ‘Work from home, Win from home’.
The first season of the WFH League will take place from May 18th to 28th and will be online-only, with the second season taking place at Platform bar live.
There will be two leagues, one in CSGO’s Wingman mode on PC and one in FIFA 20’s standard 1v1 mode on PS4. Matches will be broadcast live on Twitch.
James Alcott has been announced as the lead caster for the FIFA 20 league.
Sam Cooke, MD and co-founder at Esports Insider, said in this announcement post on the Esports Insider website: “We’ve been discussing this with the team over at Platform for some time now, and are convinced there’s appetite for it. ‘Corporate leagues’ in football, tennis, badminton and such are commonplace yet there isn’t one across any esports, at least that we know of, in London or the UK.
“We took some inspiration from the OOO League, which has been fantastic from the team over at Hurrah, but ultimately we want to make the WFH League an in-person competition at Platform, when things are back to normal.”
Nicolo Portunato, co-founder and COO of Platform, added: “One of Platform’s missions is to build out grassroots esports, and creating a form of league has always been on our radar. We’ve been discussing a corporate league with our friends at ESI for a while now, and thanks to the central location of Platform’s first venue in the city of London and ESI’s B2B network, it just made sense.”
Participants can sign up to the WFH League here.
Earlier this year, Challengermode opened up its own separate CSGO Corporate League to UK teams for the first time.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
